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Frankly speaking with Pranab Mukherjee -Part - 1/6

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Pranab Mukherjee has been president of India for just over 12 months. Though his role as head of state is largely ceremonial Mr Mukherjee is a veteran politician having held several portfolios in government.
The former Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi was his mentor in a political career which began with his election to parliament in 1969.
Euronews went to the Presidential Palace in New Delhi to meet Mr.Mukherjee on the eve of his trip to Brussels where he will attend Europalia, a four month event being staged to raise the cultural profile of India in Europe.
Chiara Reid euronews: "Mr President, thank you very much for welcoming us into your house and for participating to this edition of The Global Conversation, a conversation which we hope will shed some light onto the vital issues at the heart of India today.
'You are coming to Europe at a time when both India and the EU are grappling with great economic difficulties. We heard all about the euro crisis, but India's economic problems took us by surprise. You were supposed to be the future, the smart, industrial powerhouse, one of the so called BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India and China). So, what happened?"
Pranab Kumar Mukherjee : "First of all I would like to express my views on this issue, I am fully aware of it, because I myself was involved, when the crisis begun. First financial crisis in 2008, I had to bear the additional responsibility of heading the finance ministry, therefore I had to face this problem. Indian GDP was growing at a fast rate of around nine percent plus, but when I took over I found out there was, on almost a fortnightly basis a sliding down of the GDP. In hindsight we can say that we did not understand the depth of the crisis at that point of time. So immediately we had to rush and like most other countries we provided stimulus packages.
'Frankly speaking we could not recover from that shock, I am not talking of India but also the whole world, because the problem is at the root, and at that root there is a commonality of the problems for the eurozone and ourselves, as most of the emerging countries and some of the developed countries also, that our borrowing is not matching our mobilisation of resources. It required radical reforms. Many of the European countries did it, even taking the risk, I salute them!"
euronews: "Do you think that India will do that too?"
Pranab Kumar Mukherjee: "India has already started doing it."
euronews: "But there is more need for reforms."
Pranab Kumar Mukherjee "There is. Because - I am coming to that point - we should also keep in mind the size of the Indian population, the level of uneven development. Most of the advanced countries, their manufacturing sector is highly developed. But in India we cannot afford to have that model. Because I am to feed 1.2 billion plus people. Therefore I shall have to concentrate on agriculture. I shall have to concentrate on the development of rural India but I do agree that in today's context when the world is becoming economically integrated and global economy is no longer a dream but a reality we shall have to work collectively, but keeping in view the country's specific requirements."
euronews : "And talking about cooperation, EU and India are strategic partners, and there is a free trade and investment agreement on the table since 2007. If completed, it would positively impact on the lives of over 1.8 billion people. How can we kick start this crucial pact?"
Pranab Kumar Mukherjee : "Of course, now I cannot respond or directly act on it but my advice to my colleagues in the ministry is that 15 rounds of negotiations have been completed, I will also closely monitor it. When I was in the ministry of Finance, large number of areas of agreement were reached. There are only very few areas of differences. We should narrow down these differences."
euronews: "Are these areas you still have to tackle for example the amount of red tape there is in India?"
Pranab Kumar Mukherjee : "What I feel, that here are a certain areas where there are conceptual differences. But I am not going into the nitty gritty, what I want to emphasise that we must work to reach the agreement sooner rather than later."
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Frankly speaking with Pranab Mukherjee -Part - 1/6

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In an exclusive interview to Zee News on the eve of the presidential election results, the most likely occupant of the Rashtrapti Bhavan, Pranab Mukherjee proved once again to be an astute statesman, saying that "all secrets would be buried with him".
Pranab was speaking about his long political journey to Zee News' Editor and Business Head, Sudhir Chaudhary. He was prodded by Chaudhary about being privy to some of the most closely held secrets.
On the fight in UPA cabinet for the No-2 position, Mukherjee, who has proved to be one of the ablest negotiators, said the Prime Minister is the head of the Cabinet and rest are all equals; hence "there is nothing such as No. 2, No. 3 and No. 4 in the party".
The UPA candidate, who is virtually set to become the 13th President of India, said that he had already decided to quit politics in 2014.
Speaking about his long political journey, Mukherjee said he owed his political career to his "mentor Indira Gandhi", who inducted him into the Union Cabinet for the first time.
Mukherjee said, "7 RCR was never my destination". The statement assumes heft in the light of the longstanding speculation that Mukherjee, as one of the doyens of Congress, always nursed an ambition to occupy the top executive post.
Saying that he got the opportunity of working with the giant leaders of the India's oldest political party, the ace negotiator stated that he was "humbled and honoured because a small Congress activist was today being nominated to the highest office of the country".
On being the presidential candidate, the former finance minister maintained that he always considered himself as a worker of Congress, who always "fulfilled the responsibilities assigned to him with honesty".
Acknowledged as one of the best Parliamentarians and the Congress troubleshooter, Pranab Mukherjee expressed full faith in the party and said that he was confident that Congress would take appropriate decisions in the future as well.
"There is no lack of talent in the party," Mukherjee said on being asked who could succeed him after he reaches Raisina Hill.
One being asked by Sudhir Chaudhary whether he would be a unique President, the seasoned Congress leader said the President's House was graced by stalwarts such as Dr Rajendra Prasad and Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan in the past, and that he would only follow in the footsteps of his predecessors.
Mukherjee, who is playfully called a miser by his family, said "he would decide about the cost cutting once he reaches the President's House".
Mukherjee, who loves simplicity, said he would be quite happy in a private apartment of the President's House. "But it has its own grandeur as the President's House is a symbol of the nation," he concluded

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"Whenever there is a crisis, he is there. 25 years ago he presented the budget and did so again yesterday as it was a crisis situation," the 82-year-old BJP veteran recalled of the Congress leader, who wears different caps in the UPA government, 74-year-old Mukherjee, who was intently listening to Advani's remarks with a smile, acknowledged Advani's praise with folded hands even as the House lauded the gesture with thumping of desks.
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